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Was the fix to use a paginated API?

Also, as an aside, do you have any political sway over this decision?

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/jun/06/g...

Location history is extremely valuable to remember trips and retrace steps. I don't want this living locally on a device where it can go missing.

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That change is hilarious. So many potentially goofy reasons for it happening but my best take is google deciding not to host any data it can’t mine or use. The privacy policy on location history was quite good and effectively granted users privacy.

Privacy policies don't help your users against subpoenas.

If they cared about privacy they could have easily hosted the data encrypted with a key only known to the user rendering subpoenas useless for that service.

Or they could just not upload it. No one trusts E2EE systems; you can see Apple tries it and everyone just accuses them of putting secret backdoors in.

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